Research Article

Pseudorandom Bit Sequence Generator for Stream Cipher Based on Elliptic Curves

Table 6

Approximate gate equivalent of various hardware units.

Hardware unitApproximate gate equivalent
Proposed method PBSG-A [15]

Register (163 bits) 3 × 1,304 4 × 1,304
LFSR (163 bits) 1,3040
GF add 408 408
MUX 815 3 × 815
EC point multiplication [18] 1,38,000 1,38,000

Total 1,44,4391,46,069